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		<title>Zbrush In Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up until know 3D modeling for me was synonymous of expensive software, difficult training and long long hours in front of the computer just to get a low poly model, well that was until I got a copy of Zbrush 3.0 my first impression was just to watch at the monitor speechless.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">Up until know 3D modeling for me was synonymous of expensive software, difficult training and long long hours in front of the computer just to get a low poly model, well that was until I got a copy of Zbrush 3.0 my first impression was just to watch at the monitor speechless.</p>
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<p align="justify">It was so amazing just like sculpting in clay, intutive design interface and the level of detail that I could sculpt was just unbelievable. Since that moment I haven&#8217;t been able to put down Zbrush I have been going through every feature and trying to learn the most of them.</p>
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<p align="justify">One of the most useful features is the Zphere modeling technique this basically consist on using spheres and connections between each zphere to create a skeleton for our model once that basic skeleton its completed Zbrush automatically creates a poly skin around that skeleton. Over that skin we can start modeling and adding detail; my first test was to model a hand and forearm, it was really simple and fast.</p>
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<p align="justify">Zbrush has really a lot of potential and an amazing power, I&#8217;m yet trying to find the best workflow for my current needs and I have been converting some of my comic characters to zbrush models, I will posting them as soon they are completed so stay tuned.</p>
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		<title>Photoshop CS3: Opend Dialog Box Weird Bug</title>
		<link>http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/2008/05/photoshop-cs3-opend-dialog-box-weird-bug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 02:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a little problem with Photoshop today I was working on a title image for Sharebag.com and suddenly it crashed; actually this is nothing new with Photoshop you can always expect a few crashes now and then the weird thing was that when I tried to relaunch and reopen the PSD file; the dialog [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had a little problem with Photoshop today I was working on a title image for Sharebag.com and suddenly it crashed; actually this is nothing new with Photoshop you can always expect a few crashes now and then the weird thing was that when I tried to relaunch and reopen the PSD file; the dialog box disappered !! it only flashed and then disappear.</p>
<p>Damn! If I was worry, I went looking for an answer at Adobe official forums and Microsoft help center, well I found two &ldquo;methods&rdquo; to fix this problem one require to reinstall photoshop and remove some MS updates and the other one required to delete all my fonts, uninstall photoshop, reinstall, etc etc.</p>
<p>I was sick and tired so I did what any good engineer does when the little Windows start miss beahiving, I restarted and then tried to rerun photoshop, so I hit the open Dialog box and then &hellip;&hellip; the same thing happen it disappeared and Photoshop froze on the act, so I hit the Esc key like&nbsp;a crazy person, and something amazing happen I recover control of Photoshop and full with hope I hit the open menu again &hellip; WOW!!! it worked the dialog box was back. EUREKA!!!!!</p>
<p>So I hope this helps someone with the same problem, remember if your Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver frozes just hit &ldquo;Escape&rdquo;.</p>
<div class="bjtags">Tags:  <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Tips">Tips</a></div>
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		<title>Web Badges Pack 1</title>
		<link>http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/2008/03/web-badges-pack-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of web badgets that I have created. Hope they are useful.



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are some of web badgets that I have created. Hope they are useful.</p>
<p><img width="80" height="15" alt="" src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/image/badge_Net35.jpg" /><img width="80" height="15" alt="" src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/image/badge_ASP.jpg" /><img width="80" height="15" alt="" src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/image/badge_CSharp.jpg" /><img width="80" height="15" alt="" src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/image/badge_VisualBasic.jpg" /></p>
<p><img width="80" height="15" src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/image/dreamweaver_badges.jpg" alt="" /><img src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/image/photoshop_badges.jpg" alt="" /><img width="80" height="15" src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/image/illustrator_badges.jpg" alt="" /><img width="80" height="15" src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/image/fireworks_badges.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/image/badge_Perl.jpg" /><img alt="" src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/image/badge_Ror.jpg" /><img src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/image/badge_Ruby.jpg" alt="" /><img width="80" height="15" alt="" src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/image/badge_Dojo.jpg" /></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/file/webBagdes1.zip">Download it Now</a></p>
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		<title>Living as a freelancer, It was not a dream after all.</title>
		<link>http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/2007/12/living-as-a-freelancer-it-was-not-a-dream-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far has been pretty good, the job amount and the income has growth proportionally, what some months before appear only to be a extra income solution taking $15 and $20 projects is now become my main source of income with bigger projects and bigger budgets.
The future looks very promising, having even stronger relationship with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So far has been pretty good, the job amount and the income has growth proportionally, what some months before appear only to be a extra income solution taking $15 and $20 projects is now become my main source of income with bigger projects and bigger budgets.</p>
<p>The future looks very promising, having even stronger relationship with my recurrent customers (You know who you are&nbsp; <img src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/plugins/deans-fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin/smiles/msn/tounge_smile.gif" alt="" />);&nbsp; right now I have a great amount of interesting projects and more yet to come, and of course my personal projects are on track and getting some speed.</p>
<p>Months ago when I finish my service has a SUN University representative, I was very nervous about my source of income and what it was going to happen with my future, at least my immediate future;&nbsp; then I remember a website that I had seen some&nbsp; time ago <a href="http://www.scriptlance.com/"><strong>www.scriptlance.com</strong></a> the idea of working as an independant programmer/designer has been always appealing to me but until that moment never had any real reason nor time to try it.</p>
<p>So I subscribed to <strong>Scriptlance</strong> and start bidding on projects, it was and still is a very interesting process. At first you have to start taking small projects to start making a ranking inside this bidding websites, many times this process its not easy and can take a while, fourtunetly I didn&rsquo;t had much trouble and after some small I was ready to start taking more serious projects.</p>
<p>At first I was not making much money, but as time pass and the clients keep getting back with new and interesting proposals(and bigger budgets, of course ) I&rsquo;m now at the start of a much more stable economic situation.</p>
<p>Although for me the real and important aspect of freelancing is not the money but the time, thats right the time; the control and flexibility that you have when you are working as a freelancer, the incredible oportunity to work where ever you want as long a internet connection is present and in some cases when its not and the opportunity to work and know people from all over the world.</p>
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		<title>Resources: StarScape Brushes</title>
		<link>http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/2007/10/resources-starscape-brushes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 18 Set of brushes is excellent you can acompplish some nice effects with these ; a contribution from MercuryShadow Via: brusheezy.com&#160;&#160; .

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 18 Set of brushes is excellent you can acompplish some nice effects with these ; a contribution from <a target="_blank" href="http://mercuryshadow.deviantart.com/">MercuryShadow</a> Via: <a href="http://www.brusheezy.com/">brusheezy.com</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; .</p>
<p><img src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/Brushes/StarScapeBrushes.gif" alt="" /></p>
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		<title>Resources: RISE Brushes</title>
		<link>http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/2007/10/resources-rise-brushes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some Excellent light brushes, very nice design and effects; a contribution from Axeraider70 Via: brusheezy.com&#160;&#160; .

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are some Excellent light brushes, very nice design and effects; a contribution from <a href="http://axeraider70.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">Axeraider70</a> Via: <a href="http://www.brusheezy.com/">brusheezy.com</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; .</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/Brushes/riseBrishes.jpg" /></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/Brushes/Rise_Brushes_by_Axeraider70.zip"><span class="Title">Download</span></a></p>
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		<title>Resources: Chinese Dragons Brushes</title>
		<link>http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/2007/10/resoruces-chinese-dragons-brushes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some Chinese Dragon Brushes for all your design needs, this set Of brushes is very good and a contribution from hawksmont Universe Via: brusheezy.com&#160;&#160; .

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are some Chinese Dragon Brushes for all your design needs, this set Of brushes is very good and a contribution from <a target="_blank" href="http://brushes.hawksmont.com/">hawksmont Universe</a> Via: <a href="http://www.brusheezy.com/">brusheezy.com</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; .</p>
<p><img src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/Brushes/dragon-brushes.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/Brushes/chinese_dragons_brushes_by_hawksmont.zip"><span class="Title">Download</span></a></p>
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		<title>Otro dia mas de Freelancing.</title>
		<link>http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/2007/10/otro-dia-mas-de-freelancing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bueno otro dia m&#225;s ha pasado y eh tenido la oportunidad de realizas mas proyectos; algunos tediosos algunos interesantes pero todos divertidos y con mucho que aprender.
En este par de Dias eh hecho de todo desde la edicion de headers y logotipos&#160; hasta la optimizacion de Oscommerce y CRM 
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Este es uno de los ultimos [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bueno otro dia m&aacute;s ha pasado y eh tenido la oportunidad de realizas mas proyectos; algunos tediosos algunos interesantes pero todos divertidos y con mucho que aprender.</p>
<p>En este par de Dias eh hecho de todo desde la edicion de headers y logotipos&nbsp; hasta la optimizacion de Oscommerce y CRM <img src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/plugins/deans-fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin/smiles/msn/tounge_smile.gif" alt="" /></p>
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<p><img width="500" height="71" border="0" src="http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/wp-content/uploads//BlogTheUSAconcept3a%20copy.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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<p>Este es uno de los ultimos proyectos que hice la creacion de un Header para <a href="http://blogtheusa.com">BlogTheUSA.com</a> un blog de satira politica.</p>
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		<title>Empieza la etapa de Freelancer.</title>
		<link>http://blog.allanmacgregor.com/2007/10/empieza-la-etapa-de-freelancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pues asi es, he empezado a trabajar como freelancer atravez de Scriptlance.com y puedo decirles que a mi tercer dia no me ha ido nada mal. La actitud de la gente es totalmente diferente, donde se te valora por tu dominio de tu area y la calidad de tu trabajo; ademas en promedio tampco se [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pues asi es, he empezado a trabajar como freelancer atravez de Scriptlance.com y puedo decirles que a mi tercer dia no me ha ido nada mal. La actitud de la gente es totalmente diferente, donde se te valora por tu dominio de tu area y la calidad de tu trabajo; ademas en promedio tampco se gana nada mal ( %8.20 dlls x hora aprox.) y eso siendo mi primera semana  oficial.</p>
<p>Creo que todavia me queda mucho trabajo por hacer antes de poder llamarme freelancer %100, pero los inicios se muestran prometedores y llenos de oportunidades; veremos que va pasando, solo espero que la actitud de la gente siga siendo la misma que hasta ahora.</p>
<p>Saludos</p>
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